Well, THIS IS amazing. Maurice Sanchez from Shampoo, an art collective in the Dominican Republic sent this and more photos. The guys installed a huge tower of colourful plastic chairs in a gallery. Maurice writes:

our work tries to capture the dominican republic, the dominicans and what they do. plastic chairs are very popular in the dominican republic, they’re everywhere, they have taken over the traditional dominican wood chair. they’re usually found stacked in smaller groups on colmados (a dominican bodega or shop and now the center of social life in the country).
we just stacked a big pile and played with the colors to create an almost candy like image and another shape is created. we called the piece “la plastica dominicana” wich translates to english as “dominican fine art”. plastic in spanish also means fine, as in fine arts.

This is probably the most beautiful artwork I have ever seen that uses monobloc plastic chairs. And it is one of the simplest at the same time. Mission accomplished. Chapeau to Maurice and his colleagues.

Here is more photos: 02.jpg, 05.jpg, 08.jpg

EDIT, Nov 10 2009: Shampoo has more on their website. The installation photos above are actually from the Bienal de Artes Visuales, in Santo Domingo, 2005.

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